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Making Directed Trusts Work: The Uniform Directed Trust Act, John D. Morley, Robert H. Sitkoff
Making Directed Trusts Work: The Uniform Directed Trust Act, John D. Morley, Robert H. Sitkoff
ACTEC Law Journal
Directed trusts have become a familiar feature of trust practice in spite of considerable legal uncertainty about them. Fortunately, the Uniform Law Commission has just finished work on the Uniform Directed Trust Act (UDTA), a new uniform law that offers clear solutions to the many legal uncertainties surrounding directed trusts. This article offers an overview of the UDTA, with particular emphasis on four areas of practical innovation. The first is a careful allocation of fiduciary duties. The UDTA’s basic approach is to take the law of trusteeship and attach it to whichever person holds the powers of trusteeship, even if …